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Three-year-old Kitty’s life might be measured out not in coffee spoons, but in emails from a parental support group

As the Education Secretary locked horns last week with the National Union of Teachers over whether four and five-year-olds should be tested at school — the former hoping to assess their “level of cognitive development”, the latter responding that, “it’s too much, too soon . . . in Finland children don’t even begin formal schooling until the age of 7,” (which assumes we want to emulate the system of a country that leads the world only in suicide) — I received an email from a website called BabyCentre, subject-lined: “Your pre-schooler — three years old.”